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If you've thought that life for Vince and the guys on "Entourage" is
just an endless stream of parties and meetings with agents and being on
set, HBO's Season 7 premiere event Wednesday would have done nothing to
dissuade you.

At least about the parties.

The cable network transformed the lawn outside
the Paramount Theatre at the Studios at Paramount into a huge
nightclub, with black geometric sofas and candlelit tables covered with
brown croc as far as the eye could see -- not to mention tempting
buffets of Wolfgang Puck's beef strips, tortellini, onion rings and
chocolate doughnut holes in peanut sauce. (Click the picture below to launch a gallery of pictures from the red carpet.)

Which brings us to the important question -- how do all those girls at the party in minis and stilettos stay so skinny?

Debi Mazar wore a slinky green snake-patterned L'Wren Scott sheath in one of the first episodes, and the half-full plate in front of her looked like a clue, but we asked her anyway.

"I ate," she said, bursting our illusions. "I have a cooking show about to go on national TV. It's online [at underthetuscangun.com]. I can't tell you more than that. I eat pasta and sweets. My secret is ...

... I have kids, I don't sleep a lot, I eat a lot of my carbs early in the day.

"And
the secret I think all women want to know is that I have a fat, juicy
butt that my husband loves. When I gain weight it goes in my chin and
it goes in my knees. I just cover them. I can't cover my chin. I just
look up a lot. Chin up!"

This season, Vince (Adrian Grenier) does his own stunts in a
movie and then goes skydiving. At the bash, Grenier was standing amid a
cluster of people including his mom, Karesse, a frequent sight
at "Entourage" premieres, sipping Champagne from a mini Moet bottle.
That didn't seem too dangerous, so we asked him if he actually did the
stunt.

"What did it look like?"

It looked like you didn't.

"The point is I did do it in spirit. I'm not as brave as Vince. Or stupid," he said.

"It's what we live for, to be able to make great illusions. The
thing about 'Entourage' is everything we do is realistic. We go to the
real places, we shoot on location. We get the real people. It's a
perfect marriage between fact and fiction."

In the second episode, Vince lops off his curls. And Grenier was still wearing the new short 'do.

"Now is my hair really short?"

We'll leave that one to the experts.

Jeremy Piven, who has won three Emmys and a Golden Globe for
his role as super-agent Ari Gold, was sitting on a couch, chatting with
friends. This season, Ari runs the biggest talent agency on the planet.

Did you think Ari would get this far?

"I did. He's a wonderful combination of indestructible and totally
destructible at the same time," Piven said. "It's a culmination of all
the work coming together this year in the way that he finally merges
these two companies, gets the power he wants, goes to the next level he
wants and is about to seal the deal when his ways come back to bite him
in the ass. He's going to pay for how acerbic he is, and I can't tell
you too much, but he's going to be taken down and his livelihood and
his family are going to be put into jeopardy. As an actor those are the
stakes you hope to play. So the humanity of his character is going to
be revealed this year, and I'm just so thankful."

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